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Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Book Advent Calendar

Like last year we'll have a book advent calendar, however, this year I managed to put together more Christmassy books than last year. And there are some surprises among the 24 books... read on to find out what they are.

I always go to second-hand toy shops which also offer English children books at a very low price. All through the year I've been collecting these books (some of them we had last year too) I wrapped them in red and green paper and stacked them up like a Christmas tree:

Here is the list of the books:

Dear Santa

A busy Christmas (board book)

Mr Men - 12 Days of Christmas

Mr Christmas

Little Miss Christmas

Here comes and Angel

Dora Starry Christmas

The Manger

The Gingerbread Man (Ladybird)

The Nutcracker (Usborne)

Snappy Little Christmas (pop-up book)

Reindeer- a Christmas Story

Clifford's First Christmas

Maisy makes gingerbread

The very first Christmas (Beginner's Bible)

The night before Christmas

A Christmas Hug (Marks and Spencer)

I also included books on some of E.'s favourite topics:

The Little Brainwaves investigate... The Human Body

It's so unfair (illustrated by Jonathan Allen - author of I'm not reading, I'm not cute, I'm not scared)

I like it when... (Mary Murphy)

And 2 books in Hungarian

Zelk Zoltán: Karácsonyi ének

Télország (Lili és Lala versei)

And the surprise books ... on a new born baby

The New baby

Za-za's baby brother (by Lucy Cousins)

Yesterday we opened the first one: Busy Christmas - a tiny board book with rhymes about the preparations for Christmas. I needed to read it twice. E. wanted to open the Advent book first, rather than the Activity Calendar. I'll write a post about that one too.

Today we've read the second one from the top of the pile: Little Miss Christmas - it wasn't so very well welcome but E. liked it. The story is about Little Miss Christmas going on holiday before Christmas and leave her brother, Mr Christmas and uncle,Father Christmas finish the wrapping of all the presents. Of course, they couldn't get ready in time. But Little Miss Christmas saves the day with a brilliant idea.

Would you like to get short reviews of the Advent Books we'll be reading?

About Me

Hello there,
just a short intro about me. I was born in 1978, in Budapest, Hungary, and graduated as an English teacher in 2001. I spent a school year in Ireland where I taught primary school kids. Before E. was born I had been teaching at language schools, at companies and privately at home. Now my greatest "teaching" project in on: raising my baby bilingual (Hungarian- English) in a purely Hungarian environment.